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After traveling and living in a variety of countries throughout Central America, Europe and Africa, we are antsy to explore more cultures around the world. Quinn and I have discussed at length where we want to go next and we put a list together to get any feedback or insight from others. Turkey Turkey is […]

Tomorrow evening (May 27th at 7pm EST) the beginning of our story when we moved to San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua to start Life Out of the Box will be shared, once again, on HGTV’s House Hunters International. We’ve come along way since we left everything behind in California to pursue our dreams of traveling […]

We are proud to share with you all our most recent podcast interview with Zero To Travel. We had a great time sharing our adventures of traveling around the world as well as describing the inner workings of our social venture Life Out of the Box. You can listen to the podcast & view the show notes […]

Life Out of the Box is all about stepping out of your comfort zone to pursuit your dreams and making the world a better place while you’re doing so. We made this video to show the beauty of exploring the unknown and to inspire you to Get Out of Your Box and explore the world. Check […]

To kick of this week’s theme of “Exploration”, here’s a list of things to do when traveling that will ensure you have the true local experience. We have found that the best way to learn as much as we can as we travel is to immerse ourselves into each new culture we travel to. As Andrew Zimmerman says, […]

After our first day of hand stamping leather for our new products, we went back to our work station in the fondouk to make even more leather tags. Although this part of developing LOOTB products is very time consuming, hand stamping the unique numbers into the leather is an essential part of Life Out of […]

One of the most time consuming parts of Life Out of the Box is developing & creating new unique handmade products with artisans in each country. Knowing this through our experience in Nicaragua and Guatemala, we decided to tackle the task right away in Morocco. We began asking everyone we met in Marrakech for any […]

Every time we move to a new country, the first and most important thing we hunt for is a cheap place to live—key word being cheap. Lowering our cost of living abroad allows us to travel the world and keep reinvesting the money that we save back into the business, so finding a place within […]